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How the fuck am I supposed to run a nice Fedi instance for a few friends with every cunt with an LLM (to train) is going to bring down as much of my services as possible?
Maybe we should have let L1 and ISPs start metering the internet years ago?
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It might be good to pick up my proprietary project again. I had originally imagined a tool that could detect calls to vendor-specific routines and to specific copyrighted code (Numerical Recipes) and suggest open alternatives (netlib). It might help to detect imported copies of netlib that aren't obvious or disclosed and flag them for isolation and updating. I expected a lot of that to be tedious manual work, finding legacy vendor libraries, mapping them to modern equivalents. That might be a place genai would be useful ("Please find all the obsolescent and restricted code in my source tree") but there's no need for probabilistic methods here, especially anything shipped to a customer. Someone with less objection to chatbots would probably do it anyway if they thought they could make a few bucks sluicing it out.
There's probably no money in it anyway so keeping the project private is pointless. Then again, I don't want to be an open source maintainer. That just sounds hellish (again presuming anyone cared enough to deluge me with issues and PRs.) Then Todd Corporate would send me a request to do his software QA for free since he used my "product" and he somehow believed I was part of his "supply chain". At that point I might as well keep the code private and tell Todd to have his Procurement people call my Billing department so we can set all that up under a support contract.
And at that point it's not recreation, it's work, commerce, a side hustle. I've "run" my own "business" and I just don't have the attention span or motivation or acumen to do that again (hell, I didn't have it the first time...)
So I don't know. I'd like to get TACT3 running and modernized and extended for what I need it for (entertainment and independent design review) and automating some of the diagnostics and refactorings seems generally useful (the Photran plug-in for Eclipse was good but I could never sort out how to actually get to the code to modify it). But if I'm building parsing and text orocessing code, I'm likely to use Python and that probably wouldn't end well.
So I'm back to videogames. I can't find anything on Steam ("Please find me interesting niche games released over the last decade based on the games in my library" "Madden NFL 26 seems popular among people you probably wouldn't talk to if you had a choice!")
Meh. There is no boat, there is no float, only Zuul...
@arclight I wrote a refactoring source-to-source compiler to turn F77 into F90/95, it might be of interest to you? It is far from perfect but it does pass all NIST tests and can handle quite a few real-life examples.
It identifies external calls and libraries as well.
👾 NetBSD 11 Is AWESOME on 1990s PC's! // Ionic1k
@jbz This makes me wonder if we should have a "try enabling wsfb" message if xorg fails to start.
The proper way to correct antivaxxers 
Your hairdresser is applying chemicals to your scalp.
And we have opinions about which ones. The very strong ones.
Some substances once used in hair dyes were linked to serious health risks. So, we restricted them in the EU cosmetics market.
No public drama. Just dangerous products replaced on salon shelves by better ones.
Your colour still looks the same. The risk profile doesn’t.
— EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009: In force since 11 July 2013 + restricted substances updates
@EUCommission I love this. It feels good knowing that I can trust European products. Same with the tattoo colors a few years ago. Journalists were writing fear-mongering articles about how there would be no more tattoos with the color blue because the EU was banning some ingredients of the ink. Instead, the companies producing the ink adapted, created better products and now tattoos are safer than ever.
En faisant du rangement, je retombe sur le manuel de l’Acorn ATOM, mon 2e ordinateur après le #ZX81. C’est avec lui que j’ai appris l’assembleur #6502.
“This manual explains how to connect up the ATOM, and how to program it in BASIC or Assembler”.
Fun fact: l’entreprise Acorn a évoluée en « Acorn RISC Machines », maintenant connue sous le nom d’ARM, qui équipe probablement votre smartphone.
@nitot
On devrait faire un sondage Mastodon pour savoir combien de personnes ont commencé avec un ZX81 !
J'avoue que la touche Rubout est un peu foutue à force d'avoir fait des erreurs mais j'avais toujours un cure-dents à portée de main pour viser le contact de la touche.
You'd think that by now, "smart" terminal emulation software would have the ability to remember certain complex commands that it otherwise would take several minutes to [re]construct, or even let you set up templates for composing them.
@woozle You could even have things like radio buttons and drop-down lists for common variations, and call it a "GUI".
Wie nennt der Mensch eine Gruppe von Tieren, die von einer Matriarchin, also einem Weibchen angeführt werden?
Richtig: Erdmännchen.😏
@elala 😳🤦🏻♂️
RE: https://social.funk.net/@funk/117127944100503665
Willkommen im Boomerverse. 🤣
Bei den Kommentaren vergeht einem aber wirklich alles.
Wie nennt der Mensch eine Gruppe von Tieren, die von einer Matriarchin, also einem Weibchen angeführt werden?
Richtig: Erdmännchen.😏
…that (like every other sector of modernity) needs to be placed in its broader context.
Philippe Bihouix will help you do that
…Courtesy of @cityroler https://kuber.studio/cookie/ entered my timeline this morning. It’s pretty sobering. Not news to me but good to have it reflected back so starkly.
In its report on my phone and network context it has the below to say, which I’m jumping on as a useful point of leverage to return to what I heard Philippe Bihioux narrate a couple of days ago.
And it is much more stark about “this economy”. Some extracts to follow
Wir suchen zum Januar eine Person für die Netzwerkadministration in Kiel.
Remote nur zum Teil möglich.
Anyone?
#jobsuche
On the table last night was Endeavor: Deep Sea. Really nicely done. Will be playing this one again. Beautifully clear iconography from Josh Cappel.
I keep on learning about Speccy history every day. For example, TiL that this rare Portuguese ZX Spectrum model had black plastic keys instead of grey rubber ones, and no rainbow on the side. (thanks @moftasa for noticing)
The triple-lock on UK state-pensions was always intended to be a response to international comparisons of pensioner poverty... and so, that is how it should be judges as a policy.
A comparison of UK pensioner poverty (still standing at 15% of all state pensioners) with other OECD countries suggests not only should the triple-lock stay, but that especially against European comparators it's yet to achieve a comparable level of financial security for the post-67s.
I don't buy the Golden Gate hype. It's slightly less crass Liquid Crass. I'm sticking with Sequoia another year, until it stops receiving security updates.
Golden Gate also has some deprecations that I don't want to deal with.
@lapcatsoftware I had to ‘upgrade’ my M1 iMac to 26 for various reasons and, good grief, it’s so slow now. Not sure what’s going on. Spotlight is borderline unusable. 27 on the MBA is better at least, but that was always a low bar.
@kim_harding electorally impossible
@urlyman Yeah, right, the idea that a liveable planet is going to be an election loser is just what the fossil carbon lobbyists want people to think. But oddly people and planet friendly policies at popular with voters, when there are politicians brave enough to try them.
Lobbyist-driven policy helps to suppress voting because people think there is no point in voting, so stay part of the problem by telling people it is not worth voting...
6 of you have already done this 🎉
Collection is here - Bookstores on the fediverse! https://oslo.town/collections/117127420529305139
@matt Hi, thanks for the mention and your post. Discovery is actived for us as well, but we don't seem to appear in the collection?
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